<div dir="ltr">I agree that you should avoid Data.Default, but there is still value in keeping the package up to date since it is well-used. I would appreciate it being actively maintained.<div><br></div><div>I would however find it in bad taste to do a take over that immediately marks the package as deprecated... </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 8 May 2018 at 22:22 Tony Morris <<a href="mailto:tonymorris@gmail.com">tonymorris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Because it's a penalising way of "passing an argument to a function"<br>
with no benefit.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 05/08/2018 07:10 PM, Marco Zocca wrote:<br>
> data-default alone is depended on by > 500 packages :<br>
> <a href="http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/data-default" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/data-default</a><br>
><br>
> Could you motivate why it's not a good idea ?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Christopher Allen <<a href="mailto:cma@bitemyapp.com" target="_blank">cma@bitemyapp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Is this something folks still think is a good idea? I purge<br>
>> Data.Default from projects I work on.<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Marco Zocca <<a href="mailto:zocca.marco@gmail.com" target="_blank">zocca.marco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Dear all,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I've been increasingly relying on data-default-class, but sadly it<br>
>>> doesn't look like it's currently maintained; there are some tickets on<br>
>>> the github issue tracker that would need some attention.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I have tried contacting the authro/current maintainer Lukas Mai (CC'd)<br>
>>> by email but have not received an answer so far (I hope he's doing<br>
>>> well, btw).<br>
>>><br>
>>> This is my first public request for taking over the `data-default`<br>
>>> family of packages:<br>
>>><br>
>>> data-default-class<br>
>>> data-default-instances-base<br>
>>> data-default-instances-containers<br>
>>> data-default-instances-dlist<br>
>>> data-default-instances-old-locale<br>
>>> data-default<br>
>>><br>
>>> Kind regards,<br>
>>> Marco Zocca<br>
>>> (<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/user/ocramz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/user/ocramz</a>)<br>
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>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Chris Allen<br>
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